ISBN:
128325929X
,
9789085550457
,
9781283259293
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (140 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Foreign Eyes : International Students Reflect on Utrecht
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Universiteit Utrecht
;
Students, Foreign
Abstract:
Annually, hundreds of students fromall over the world come to study atUtrecht University. To commemoratethe university's 375th anniversary, currentand past international students wereinvited to refl ect on Dutch culture. Whatdo they consider particularly noteworthy,surprising, incomprehensible or charmingin their Dutch academic life? From a personalperspective and in their own words,the students share their experiences andcomment on remarkable, frustrating andfascinating features of Dutch culture.Curtainless windows, delicious stroop wafels,a scent of freedom in the streets, canalsrefl ecting
Description / Table of Contents:
An Ode to Foreign Eyes; Fascinated by Foreign Eyes; Understanding Happiness; Perception Is Reality; Nervous, Alone and So Excited...; Scraping Clouds from a Wolkenkrabber:; One Good Day; It Must Be the Broodje Kaas; In Search of My Own Time; Discovering Utrecht through ?the Senses; Cycling through Snow; Utrecht by Night - Utrecht by Light!; Where Surrealism Unleashes; On People and Sunlight; Bicycle Diaries: ?Racing in the Land of Giants; Letter to My Friend; In a Map of Time; Students from Utrecht; Utrecht's Climate in Shorts; Contrast; My Spacehopper; Out on the Town
Description / Table of Contents:
The Devil Is in the DetailsLessons for Life; A Semester of Swayings?(Uncensored); The Missing Dimension; Six Months below Sea; Translations of Mottos; About the Authors; Acknowledgements
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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